I agree with you 100%... it is a big mess and getting worse in some ways but hopefully better now that more people like you are talking about it. We all must do our small part to make a big difference. We all live on the same planet and we only have one world...

I know.Some Expats here actually started a clean up Sharm group and collect trash once a month.They publish the efforts in one of the magazines here. But to get the attention of the locals, they should work WITH the locals, not only Expats.Most of us know how to recycle and how to use a trash bin....

I said the other day that Sharm has max. 5 years to tip the scale either to a good or a bad outcome.

It's sad :(

Cairo I can't say, since I've not been there yet.But I read about the trash problems there since they killed all the pigs.The goats can't eat all the trash the pigs did.

Pigs and goats eating the trash. Now, if that's their solution to "going green" and "eco friendly" they sure missed the point at some corner...

Yes, sad. I didn't see this news report on TV, but the only city with similar problems I've seen (on BBC) was in a heavily industrialised place in China - I feared for the lives of the inhabitants when I saw it. That pollution was caused by the industry; this in Cairo largely by agriculture, it seems. I can only think that, in trying to make up lost ground as a developing country, the authorities have given a very low priority to environmental and health issues.

In China the situation is really bad.This black cloud is different but a problem.Like the traffic here. About 6.000 people die in car accidents every year.They drive too fast and they all imagine they're formula 1 drivers!